Merger Madness

The flood of retail mergers has spiked in 2004 and into 2005. The number of hefty deals completed in the past 18 months (worth $300 million or more) has gone up considerably over the previous two years. Here, we provide a list of the big deals that illustrates the ramp-up in activity

2005

FEB

Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores merge in a deal worth about $17 billion.